Video - Nick Saban A-Day Press Conference

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Saban's Fuzzy Math
Published 4/17/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
Nick Saban was put on the hotseat Monday by Ian R. Rapoport of the Birmingham News over how the Alabama coach plans to get his roster down to the NCAA limit of 85 scholarship players. By Rapoport's account, Saban will be six scholarships over the limit when an expected 25 freshmen enroll for fall classes. Given the public interest in Saban's math skills — he can certainly add up all those numbers on a contract that pays him $3.75 million this year — this was a fair question. And it no doubt is a question several Crimson Tide players and their families would like answered ...

YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? REALLY?
Published 4/17/2008 by Orson Swindle at EDSBS
You don’t need to know that. What? Whatever. Fans don’t need to know. Anything. I thought we could get through this without this stuff without an issue. But if you really wanna know how we’re gonna deal with it? I mean, really? Fine. I’ll let you know how we’re gonna deal with it. —John Parker Wilson’s gonna go to Bonnaroo. And when he does, he’s gonna get the bad acid. We’ll call it Lyme disease and get him a medical exemption. Don’t ask me where we got the idea. You don’t need to know that, ...

Saban: Bama’s Roster Is ‘None Of Your Business’
Published 4/17/2008 by Matt Sussman at SPORTSbyBROOKS
It looks like Nick Saban’s love affair with the media continues akin to PETA’s romance with KFC. The Alabama football coach got into a little tiff with Ian Rapoport , a rapoporter reporter for THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS. The story was found via THE WIZARD OF ODDS , who raised the stakes with the video goodness: If you’re in no position to watch video, or simply protest the entire moving pictures industry, Rapoport asked Saban about the situation with the football team having more scholarship players than the NCAA allows on a roster, and what they plan to do about it. From there, the press conference reached an inevitable nexus:“I’m not ...

Nick Saban Would Rather Not Discuss Alabama's Extra Scholarships
Published 4/17/2008 at FanIQ Blog
Nick Saban is an ass. That much is clear. What's not clear, however, is how Alabama's football coach intends to handle the six extra scholarships he's offered to his incoming recruiting class of 31. The NCAA limits each team to 85 scholarships and 91 players will be under the impression they are getting a free education when they report to fall camp. How does Saban plan to handle this situation? He'd rather not talk about. In fact, it's not anyone's business. Ian R. Rapoport of the Birmingham News put Saban on the hotseat Monday when trying to dig a ...

Soapbox: Recruiting Wounds, Reopened
Published 4/17/2008 by SMQ <info@sundaymorningqb.com> at Sunday Morning Quarterback: Front Page Posts
Way on back when (like, February, ages in blog years), typically erudite Brian Cook put up a post under his AOL mugshot in which, drawing on Joe Tiller's jab at Rich Rodriguez, he called Nick Saban a "snake oil salesman" for signing a bulging incoming class that could never fit through NCAA-regulated doors. Inevitably, as is natural law when Big Ten types condescend to wag their fingers at the Dirty South, vitriol and minor pandemonium ensued. I got e-mails about the impending feud before I even read the first shots, and one phone call. Neither is typical. Tiders were trez pissed. I had ...